Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
GEORGE ELIOTOur deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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